1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,120 And welcome back to Esco Confessions! I am your host Lily Monroe. Thank you so much 2 00:00:13,120 --> 00:00:19,920 for tuning in today. Again, thank you so much for, you know, listening to me ramble and 3 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:25,840 talk about the adventures and hopefully you guys learned something from those podcasts. 4 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:34,720 Otherwise, my job here is not done, you know. And if I can just make you smile and hopefully 5 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:41,360 see me and book with me, that's awesome. Or you can follow me online, that's fine too. Yeah, 6 00:00:42,240 --> 00:00:49,200 but yeah, thank you again so much. And today I'm gonna talk about London Part 4. If you, 7 00:00:49,760 --> 00:00:54,640 if this is your first time listening to the podcast, I suggest you go to episode one or the 8 00:00:54,640 --> 00:01:04,880 most popular one and give it a try, give it a good go. And yeah, if this is, yeah, if this is your 9 00:01:04,880 --> 00:01:13,920 first time listening to me, go ahead and listen to part one of London. Yeah, so yeah, London is the 10 00:01:13,920 --> 00:01:20,240 capital of Great Britain and it was my first time being out of the country by myself. Because 11 00:01:20,240 --> 00:01:25,920 the first time I was, I moved to the United States with my mom, which was, 12 00:01:26,720 --> 00:01:34,160 fuck we know, 12 years old, which was like in 2000, early 2000s. So yeah, and then the second 13 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:41,520 time I was out of the country was with this dance group and we had this, we represented Ukraine 14 00:01:41,520 --> 00:01:50,480 in Ankara, Istanbul, sorry, Ankara, Turkey. And yeah, it was dance competition, I loved it, 15 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:56,080 Turkey was great, but yeah, this was like my first, first time out of the country by myself. 16 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:03,360 Which was quite an experience, because it's like when you're with somebody, it's so much easier 17 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:07,760 to figure out what to do, where to go, because if you don't know, somebody else will know. And if 18 00:02:07,760 --> 00:02:13,440 that person doesn't know, you know something that they don't know. But you know, when you travel 19 00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:19,920 solo, you have to figure out the language, figure out where to go, what to do, what to see, where to 20 00:02:19,920 --> 00:02:34,000 stay, unless you pre-booked, you know, the hotel or Airbnb or hostel. So yeah, so after, yeah, 21 00:02:34,000 --> 00:02:42,080 I, after I hung out with the kids on Shrek's Adventure, which was super awesome, by the way, 22 00:02:42,080 --> 00:02:52,000 I went to, okay, I was still like, this is like my child, my inner child, but I love teddy bears, 23 00:02:52,880 --> 00:03:00,160 I've always collected them, I also collect unicorns and souls, just kidding. But the last part, 24 00:03:00,160 --> 00:03:07,840 or not, I don't know. But yeah, like I've, you know, as a kid, I've always collected teddy bears, 25 00:03:07,840 --> 00:03:14,720 and I've always like, you know, I see the stores, build a bear, bears are us, or toys are us, 26 00:03:14,720 --> 00:03:20,480 and I'm like, these bears are kind of expensive, but you pay for the experience. So 27 00:03:22,160 --> 00:03:28,880 next to, it was kind of next to Shrek, near London Eye and near Shrek's Adventure, there was small 28 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:36,720 build a bear store. So, and I went there and I'm like, you know what, maybe this looks, 29 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:44,160 this looks fun, so I chose a bear. It was a hard struggle between like a regular beige looking bear 30 00:03:44,720 --> 00:03:49,840 and a rainbow looking bear with little eyelashes. So I'm like, you know what, I'm gonna get a rainbow 31 00:03:49,840 --> 00:03:57,680 bear. I still have no name for him, or it might be her, I don't know, it looks like a her, but 32 00:03:57,680 --> 00:04:05,520 he's dressed in male clothes, so it might be non-binary or so. First non-binary, oh my god, 33 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:12,800 that is such a good idea. First non-binary teddy bear. Do you guys know the way the sales are gonna 34 00:04:12,800 --> 00:04:21,600 go up? Oh my god. So anyways, I bought this non-binary bear, and then I'm like, you know what, 35 00:04:21,600 --> 00:04:28,160 he'll be so cute if I'm dressing my Slytherin outfit, and I got a Slytherin outfit for him, 36 00:04:28,160 --> 00:04:35,040 and the red Converse shoes, because I was wearing red Converse shoes when I first came to London, so 37 00:04:35,600 --> 00:04:39,600 and I love red, and I love Converse's because they're so comfy, at least for me. 38 00:04:40,480 --> 00:04:48,000 Even though my feet hurt, still Converse's are cool. The doctor wears them, and you are like 39 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:56,160 doctor who? And I'm like exactly, exactly my friend. But anyways, so yeah, I went to build a bear, and 40 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:05,600 got the rainbow bear, some clothes, and I also got him the costume that the Queen's guards wear, 41 00:05:06,320 --> 00:05:14,240 and yeah, and I, yeah, it was so adorable, and I'm like, carry this bag with me, I'm like, fuck yeah, 42 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:22,160 I just got my bear some clothes, and I got a bear, and I put heartbeat on him, and made a wish for 43 00:05:22,160 --> 00:05:29,680 the regular heart, and it was so cute, and I'm like, oh my god, that's amazing, cost me like $90, 44 00:05:29,680 --> 00:05:35,920 but it's fine, and then I started browsing on Amazon on my phone, I'm like, I need to buy this 45 00:05:35,920 --> 00:05:41,840 bear more clothes. These clothes are so much cheaper than the kids clothes, it's ridiculous, 46 00:05:41,840 --> 00:05:49,840 but anyways, anyways, so after that I was walking around the, I was walking alongside the river 47 00:05:49,840 --> 00:05:59,200 Themes South Bank, I think it's called South Bank, and I saw this, I saw a unicycle, and then I saw 48 00:05:59,200 --> 00:06:04,640 this performer, and I'm like, you know what, the performer is kind of cute, maybe I should see, 49 00:06:04,640 --> 00:06:10,400 you know, I was gonna go to Tate Museum, which I did after that, but I was like, I'm gonna go 50 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:15,280 after that, but I kind of stopped, and he's like, hey, how's it going? I'm like, oh good, good, he's 51 00:06:15,280 --> 00:06:22,480 like, good, good, yeah, and then he, I feel like he's a comedian, because his performance, so like, 52 00:06:22,480 --> 00:06:27,920 you know, he has stage presence, like you could tell if somebody has that, because he was entertaining, 53 00:06:27,920 --> 00:06:35,360 he was funny, he was making jokes, and maybe he's a comedian, I don't know, but anyways, so he started 54 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:42,000 doing like tricks on, actually he did one, he did one trick, and I don't think anybody has done it, 55 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:49,920 but he's also a contortionist, so he got on a unicycle, which is a six feet unicycle, and he had 56 00:06:49,920 --> 00:06:54,720 to use a box to get on it, so you can't just, you can't just get on unicycle without some kind of 57 00:06:54,720 --> 00:07:01,200 support, maybe, I don't know, maybe three foot unicycle, I don't know, but it was six feet unicycle, 58 00:07:01,200 --> 00:07:08,000 and he got on it, and then he put the tennis rack through his body, so he was skinny, he was a skinny 59 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:16,960 guy, and I remember he had to adjust his thing away from the audience, and there were some people 60 00:07:16,960 --> 00:07:24,160 were behind him, so like he turned away from the audience, and then he's like facing the other 61 00:07:24,160 --> 00:07:31,280 people, he's like, hey guys, how are you, and he just, he's dinged on, and turned to us, and then 62 00:07:31,280 --> 00:07:37,200 and then when he put it to his ribs and nipples, he's like, my nipples are sensitive, and then he 63 00:07:37,200 --> 00:07:45,280 dislocated his shoulder, and he's like, it's fine, it doesn't hurt as bad anymore, and he joked about 64 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:52,800 how his parents are so proud of him, which I'm sure they are, but yeah, he's, he was so cute and funny, 65 00:07:52,800 --> 00:08:01,680 but he was married, so I'm like, okay, he was 40, but he was married, darn, yeah, but it's fine, 66 00:08:01,680 --> 00:08:10,080 you know, I gave him a tip, and so now you can apparently tip people through Vanmora Cash app, 67 00:08:10,080 --> 00:08:15,920 and it's, I don't know how long it's been like that, but like the street performers, not just 68 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,880 anybody, like street performers in general, and I'm like, oh, that's cool, you know, I don't have 69 00:08:20,880 --> 00:08:27,440 Vanmora anymore, so I just, I just gave him like, a fiver, fiver, I think it's called, five pounds, 70 00:08:27,440 --> 00:08:35,280 because I had 20, but I'm like, I gotta save it, and yeah, but he, I saw his head, one of his heads 71 00:08:35,280 --> 00:08:40,320 almost full, I'm like, damn, maybe I should like do something, maybe I should perform some kind of 72 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:50,400 act, but yeah, he was so funny, and really talented dude, I was thinking, maybe he should be in Britain's, 73 00:08:50,400 --> 00:08:58,720 you know, Britain's Got Talent, so yeah, and then after that, I went to the Tate Museum, and it was, 74 00:08:59,840 --> 00:09:08,800 I don't know why it's, I don't know why it's so overrated, I walked in, there was display of used 75 00:09:09,920 --> 00:09:17,120 dirty material hanging from the ceiling, it was a long, like, it was tall, but I'm like, what the 76 00:09:17,120 --> 00:09:24,080 fuck is the point of this, and then I started going around, and some exhibits made me depressed, and 77 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:31,520 not good, because there were, you know, how some noises will make you feel agitated, and angry, and 78 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:38,080 sad, and depressed, and that's what it made me feel, and maybe it's called art, I don't know, but I 79 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:46,160 I didn't like to feel that way, and then, yeah, like, I just walked through the museum so fast, because 80 00:09:46,160 --> 00:09:53,280 most of the work, it was shit, it was shit, I'm sorry, like, some of the pieces were not art, 81 00:09:53,280 --> 00:10:01,280 artistic at all, and I understand art, you know, it's, art is not forever, like, certain art is not 82 00:10:01,280 --> 00:10:08,720 for everybody, art is an expression, like, okay, well, why are you expressing the art with pile of 83 00:10:08,720 --> 00:10:17,680 shit-looking shit, I don't get it, and some art exhibits were cute, but, you know, after being in 84 00:10:17,680 --> 00:10:25,360 the National Gallery, where everything was painted with hand from famous people, and, you know, like 85 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:34,960 Leonardo da Vinci sketches, and, you know, like, paintings, paintings, and yeah, like, I get it, 86 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:44,560 I might be a hypocrite, but, you know, it's, there's art, there's art, and then there's art, 87 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:49,280 and it was modern art museum, and I'm like, I fucking hate modern art, some of it is good, 88 00:10:49,280 --> 00:10:57,200 but some of it is just shit, so, and then after that, after that museum, I ubered too, because my legs 89 00:10:57,200 --> 00:11:05,200 are killing me again, third day or fourth day in a row, fourth day, yes, so I took a uber to the 90 00:11:05,200 --> 00:11:12,160 National History Museum, oh my god, it was overcrowded, oh, oh, fun fact about the, 91 00:11:13,280 --> 00:11:19,920 the touristy museums in London is that they are free, but the donations are always, 92 00:11:20,880 --> 00:11:26,000 you know, preferred, so I was like, oh my god, this is so cool, like, it was a huge museum, 93 00:11:26,000 --> 00:11:32,800 if it was in America, that, the museum, the entry would have been at least 30 dollars, so I'm like, 94 00:11:32,800 --> 00:11:39,760 this is so cool, so, although one, the one of the exhibits was like 15 bucks, but it's, sorry, 15 95 00:11:39,760 --> 00:11:44,480 pounds, but it's fine, it was nothing, because there was just so much to see, there were three 96 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:52,240 or four floors, and it was a lot of walking, it was a lot of information, and I did learn some things, 97 00:11:52,240 --> 00:11:58,560 but I was also very tired, I worked around that museum like I was a zombie, because it was almost 98 00:11:58,560 --> 00:12:08,240 five o'clock, and I was, I was up since six a.m. that day, and, yeah, but, yeah, but there was a lot 99 00:12:08,240 --> 00:12:15,600 of cool stuff in there, there were a lot, a lot of cool stuff, it's history, it's, you know, there 100 00:12:15,600 --> 00:12:25,200 was medicine, technology, science fiction, you know, aviation stuff, there wasn't really art, 101 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:32,080 but there was a lot of, there was so much information, I'm like, I'm feeling very overwhelmed, 102 00:12:32,080 --> 00:12:39,280 so I kind of just walked through it, and I remember getting so pissed at some kids, 103 00:12:40,480 --> 00:12:44,160 and people who did not say excuse me when you passed through them, and they were tourists, 104 00:12:44,160 --> 00:12:48,720 I could tell they were tourists, because they did not say excuse me, they weren't polite, 105 00:12:48,720 --> 00:12:53,520 so I'm like, okay, whatever, and the kids, I swear, some people are not allowed to have kids, 106 00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:58,880 there was this black lady with two children, I'm not being racist, there was white person there too, 107 00:12:58,880 --> 00:13:02,960 her husband was white, and they could not control their kids, because they kept making noises and 108 00:13:02,960 --> 00:13:08,960 running around, and I swear people, I don't know, maybe, maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the, 109 00:13:08,960 --> 00:13:15,200 the way that I was raised, but if you cannot, like, like some kids need to be spanked, 110 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:24,320 just saying, like, because, hey, stop it, would not do it, so anyways, so there were a lot of 111 00:13:24,320 --> 00:13:29,200 tourists and lots of people in that museum, which kind of, I don't know, maybe it's overwhelming 112 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:34,080 for me, when there's too many people, like, if there's like, if people are scared, that's fine, 113 00:13:34,080 --> 00:13:38,320 like, I'm fine making small conversations with them, but if there's shit on people, 114 00:13:38,320 --> 00:13:45,120 shit on people, oh my god, I get so overwhelmed, maybe it's, maybe it's the introvert in me, or 115 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:54,320 just, well, it's just me, yeah, but anyways, after, after that museum, I just, I was like, 116 00:13:54,320 --> 00:14:01,120 I'm like 40 minutes driving from home, and I do not feel like taking a tube and figuring the shit 117 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:10,560 out, I was exhausted, so I took, so I took an Uber there, and it was like 35 pounds, which is, 118 00:14:13,040 --> 00:14:19,600 which is 43 dollars, with the, let's see, 35, 43, 48, so I'm like, whatever, it's fine, 119 00:14:21,360 --> 00:14:27,520 Uber is convenient, it's faster, except that day, it was not fast, there was so much traffic, and, 120 00:14:27,520 --> 00:14:32,480 and, but you know, it's fine, I actually paid less than what it was supposed to be worth, so, 121 00:14:33,680 --> 00:14:42,240 and on the way, on the way home to the Airbnb, which is still probably home, I, you know, I asked 122 00:14:42,240 --> 00:14:48,080 him about the rent, because I was curious, you know, I'm curious about a lot of stuff, and I asked him 123 00:14:48,080 --> 00:14:55,280 about the rent, I asked him about food, I asked, I asked him about dating culture, he's like, yeah, 124 00:14:55,280 --> 00:15:04,160 everybody uses apps, rent is, you know, if it's outside of London, it's like, sometimes it's 900, 125 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:12,320 on the website I saw 700, so it's not bad, it's not bad at all, and yeah, I did talk about rent in, 126 00:15:13,280 --> 00:15:20,320 I think, first or second podcast, but, or first or second part of this podcast, but yeah, yeah, 127 00:15:20,320 --> 00:15:25,680 and he was really friendly, and he was so apologetic, he's like, I'm sorry, this is 128 00:15:25,680 --> 00:15:31,920 sick and sore, I'm like, I'm fine, I am in no rush, no worries, I'm just relaxing, and, 129 00:15:33,120 --> 00:15:40,640 because I was, I was just looking around, I slept a little bit, I think, and I was dressing my teddy 130 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:51,760 bear in some clothes, so yeah, it was a good ride, it was a good ride, yeah, so, yeah, and then I got 131 00:15:51,760 --> 00:16:00,960 home, I slept, I'm like, I'm so tired, I'm just gonna take some rest, so I rested on day five, and 132 00:16:00,960 --> 00:16:10,160 yeah, and more adventures to follow up, so stay tuned.